lokutionär
Lokutionär is a term used in linguistics and pragmatics to refer to the locutionary aspect of speech acts. A lokutionärer act is the act of uttering a sequence of words with a conventional meaning and phonetic form. In the framework of speech act theory, proposed by J. L. Austin, three concurrent layers describe what an utterance accomplishes: the locutionary act (the act of saying something), the illocutionary act (the speaker’s intention, such as making a request, giving a promise, or issuing a warning), and the perlocutionary act (the effect on the listener, such as persuading or causing an action).
The locutionary content includes the actual words, their syntax, and their literal semantic content. The illocutionary
Origin and influence: Austin introduced the locutionary-illocutionary-perlocutionary framework in the mid-20th century, and John Searle later
In practice, researchers analyze locutionary acts as the basis for understanding how utterances function within communicative